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Hey friends!

This March we’re exploring accompliceship and healthy anger with our kids.

You know, the usual March routine. Women’s history, calling in Irish Americans for St. Paddy’s – and the traditional spring dance where we pack away the kids’ winter gear, dig it out for freak blizzards, repeat 3x, and then it’s August somehow.

No one expects you to dedicate every minute of March to ALL OF THESE. But maybe pick a topic below and run with it.

With you,

Ashia R.

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Don't try to do it all! Pick one event and build upon what you learned together next year.

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MAR

National Day of Unplugging

Helping kids navigate the attention exploitation of digital media and destigmatizing accessible tech.

8

MAR

International Working Women's Day

Let’s talk about valuing care work and recognizing emotional labor!

10

mar

The Month of Ramadan Starts

With more stellar books coming out every year, we no longer have to settle for dry nonfiction about the Month of Ramadan

16

mar

National Panda Day

We love pandas. But we don't love the racist themes in panda kidlit - orientalism, racial coding, and anti-Asian stereotypes.

17

mar

St. Paddy's & Irish American Heritage Month

Our annual St. Paddy’s call to stop equating indentured servitude with slavery, and other ways we can celebrate being Irish American without being hypocrites.

19

mar

Spring Equinox

Kidlit that focuses on hope, rebirth, and emergence from hardship.

21

mar

International Day of Forests

Let's talk about deforestation - and how to turn things around.

31

mar

Trans Day of Visibility

How does your culture understand gender? What other ways do we see gender around the world?

31

mar

Easter

A Christian observance that focuses on hope, rebirth, and emergence from hardship through the story of their main man J's resurrection and resistance against oppression.

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Animal
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Dismantling speciesism and protecting animal habitats

Allies &
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How to weaponize our privilege to support targeted people.

Embracing
Anger

Who has the right to get angry?

Anti-
Racism

A beginner's guide to understanding and dismantling systemic racism.

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Calls
to Action

Join Our
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